Class II. WHITE FRONTED GOOSE. Q35 



Anas albifrons. A. cinerea, L'Oye sauvage du nord. Bris- 5. White 



fronte alba. Lath. Ind. so7i av. vi. 269. fronted. 



orn. 842. id. Syn. vi. 463. Yl Oi&n&me. Hist. d'ois.\%.Bl. 



The laughing Goose. Edw. Polnische Ganss. Kram. 33Q. 



av. tab. 153. Danis Vild Gaas. Brunnich, 



Anas erythropus (ycpffj.^ Lm. 53. 



syst. 197. Br. Zool. 130. O. 1. Arcf. 



Anas albifrons. Gm. Lin. 50Q. Zool. ii. 27O. 

 Fiaellgas. Faun. Suec. sp. II6. 



J- HE weight of this kind is about five pounds Descrip. 

 and a half; the length two feet four inches; the 

 extent four feet six. The bill is elevated, of a 

 pale yellow color, with a white nail; the fore- 

 head white ; the head and neck of the same 

 color with those of the preceding species ; the 

 coverts of the wing, the primaries and seconda- 

 ries darker ; in the tail the ash color predomi- 

 nates ; the ends of the feathers are white ; in 

 some, perhaps in young birds, of the same color 

 with the other part of the tail ; this, as in the two 

 preceding, surrounded with a white ring. The 

 breast and belly are of a dirty white, marked 

 with spots of black ; the legs yellow ; the nails 

 whitish. The female is inferior in size to the 

 male, and the bed of feathers at the base of the 

 bill, which in the other sex is of a pure white, is 

 mottled with dusky; it also differs in having the 

 breast and belly of an uniform light ash color. 



